The old hometown looks the same as I step down from the train And there to meet me is my mamma and pappa And down the road I look and there runs Mary Hair of gold and lips like cherries It's good to touch the green green grass of home.
Yes, they've all come to meet me, arms a reached smiling sweetly It's so good to touch the green green grass of home.
The old house, is still standing, though the paint is cracked and dried And there's that old oak tree that I used to play on And down the lane I walk with my sweet Mary Hair of gold and lips like cherries. It's good to touch the green green grass of home.
Then I wake and look around me At these four gray walls that surround me And I realize that I was only dreaming For there's a guard and there's a sad old padre Arm in arm we'll walk at daybreak When again I'll touch the green green grass of home.
They'll all come to see me, in the shade of that old oak tree As they lay me, neath the green green grass of home...